Shawn Siegele explores the BestBall win rates for key players in the MFL10 of Death, including a breathtaking squad with Mark Andrews, Darren Waller, and D.J. Chark. He looks back at his own draft and evaluates whether the lessons from the Best Ball Workshop have allowed him to continue his winning ways. Each week in my adventures down the rabbit hole of the Best Ball Win…...

The 3 and Out uses several RotoViz Apps to uncover significant workload changes; league, team, and player-specific trends; and hidden but powerful statistics. Welcome back to The 3 and Out! In this week’s edition, we’ll be looking at rushing success rate (RSR). While RSR doesn’t correlate with fantasy points or provide actionable fantasy insights, the results are always interesting. A rushing play is considered successful if…...

Giana Pacinelli provides QB streaming options, 2-QB plays, and overall QB rankings for Week 12 of the 2019 fantasy football season. There is a lot to cover in the quarterback sphere after Week 11, but the most shocking was the outcome of the Lamar Jackson vs. Deshaun Watson game — largely because Watson didn’t seem to show up. Jackson is making the MVP run a near…...

Blair Andrews examines the running back workloads for every NFC backfield ahead of Week 12. Every fantasy team can use a breakout RB, whether their owners drafted them as Zero-RB squads or not. The Zero RB Watch List helps to find these breakout stars before they hit. But it also helps you understand which of the high-profile backs you should be buying and selling based…...

Jack Miller has done an excellent job this season using the Strength of Schedule Streaming tool to help you buy players before they benefited from easier schedules. In this companion piece, Shawn Siegele suggests a few sell options to boost your lineup for the fantasy football playoffs. It’s Always Hard to Sell – Let’s Make It A Little Easier I have a particular fondness for the SoS…...

The Process Before I look to Week 12 it is important to observe if the selection process was effective. Here is a recap of last week’s recommendations. If you need a refresher on what to look for when analyzing kickers, read the Week 2 Fantasy Football Kicker Streaming article.  Name, Team Stat Line Week 10 Rank 1 San Francisco Kicker FG 3/3 XP 3/3 T…...

Shawn Siegele looks at a rare receiving explosion from Mark Ingram, a clockwork receiving explosion from Austin Ekeler, and emerging opportunity in Indianapolis as he details the running back workloads for every AFC backfield ahead of Week 12. Our goal with the Zero RB Watch List is to help you locate RB breakouts and waiver adds before they happen, but this column isn’t just for…...

The Strength of Schedule Streaming app allows you to see which players have the easiest or most difficult upcoming schedules, a potentially league-winning edge that gives you the opportunity to buy players right before they explode in plus matchups. Welcome back to the Buy Low Report. As usual, we will combine insight from the SoS Streaming App and the RotoViz Screener to identify players who…...

The Week 11 streamers started off looking like something of a disappointment, with Vance McDonald managing only 6.3 PPR points on Thursday Night Football and O.J. Howard somehow turning his only target of the day into an interception. But Old Faithful Kyle Rudolph answered the call with a valiant 17.7 PPR points, making him the TE4 on the week. There was also success for the…...

There are a host of familiar names among the ranks of the most targeted wide receivers from Week 11. Michael Thomas, Julian Edelman, and DeAndre Hopkins have all seen at least ten targets in each of their last five games. Indeed, Thomas is currently on a six-game streak of seeing double-digit targets. Here’s the full list of WRs who commanded at least 10 targets in…...

The fantasy playoffs are so close I can almost taste them … well at least in a couple of my leagues. This is the time of year where you need to be very aware of how you are using your bench to maximize your probability of success. Once again I went to twitter to see which players people are dropping. Here are a few that…...

Waiver Wire Dumpster Dives takes you beyond the obvious plays and helps you find undervalued gems for deep leagues. Thanksgiving is coming up. Christmas shopping and travel plans are being made. Fantasy playoffs are just over the horizon. There is a lot of … well just plain life going on. But fear not. The team at RotoViz is going to do the hard work for…...

If you spend any time reading RotoViz, eventually you’ll hear us talking about expected points. Expected points (EP) are the number of fantasy points that a target or carry should score based on game situation — down, distance, and field position. In other words, expected points allow us to transform raw opportunity, such as carries and targets, directly into fantasy points. From there we can…...

Shawn Siegele looks at all of the top wide receiver performances from Week 11, including big games from Stefon Diggs, Calvin Ridley, and John Brown. WR Fantasy Points Over Expectation Leaderboard – Week 11 Stefon Diggs In the midst of a brutal stretch where he has the most difficult WR schedule in football, Diggs ignited a Vikings second-half comeback with 121 yards and a score…...